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Superintendent and we're going to talk to her in a moment. we're also going to talk to a teacher who's being fired. first up tonight, up close, here's randi kay. >> reporter: 75% of the district lives in poverty. a good education may be their only shot at a brighter future. so to give these students a better chance, central falls superintendent this week did something so radical, so unheard of, it's captured the nation's attention. she cleaned house, fired dozens of teachers, because the district says they refuse to spend more time with students to improve test scores. >> we have a serious pro...

Failing school, they had options, they could call the principal, complain to the school board, consider protectual or private school but now pairnents california have something those around the country don't, leverage. >> after all these years of fighting the system and trying to work with the district to get things done correctly, it hasn't worked. >> for years, bad teachers and underachieving students reet peedly earned mount gleason school failing grades but a new law gives parents at low performing schools a powerful option, if harn half petition for change, they can become a charter, repl...

>> after all these years of fighting the system and trying to work with the district to get things done correctly, it hasn't worked. >> reporter: for years, bad teachers and underachieving students repeatedly earn mount glee son middle school failing grades but a new law gives frustrated parents at low performing schools a powerful option, if more than half petition for change they could become a charter, replace teachers or fire the principal and close the school. >> we sit back and watch as our children are being failed by other people and we've never had the power to act and finally, this i...

Raise taxes on those making below $250,000. he's been consistent with what he said over the course of the last couple of years. >> melody, one of the talking points of the campaign had to do on education and no child left behind. you'd hear a lot of criticism from democrats saying the concept was good, but it wasn't implemented very well. we know that you guys are talking about trying to re-do something more when it comes to no child left behind. explain that a little bit. when you guys say you're going to change no child left behind, what does that mean? >> sure. well, what we all believe is ...

School not caring about what they are going to learn. i don't care what teachers you get, i don't care about the reforms, if kids don't care when they show up, schools will perform poorly. >> the point, the point is that the parents who put their kids in charter school care tremendously. they have to go out in the street and fight for the right to put their kids in charter schools, that does show caring. right? >> yeah. it certainly does. >> hold on. >> steve, go ahead. >> it does indeed. here in chicago there is a waiting line to get in these schools and the legislature springfield is fightin...